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Mostly versimilitude rather than a specific build.

The wild man who can deal with animals but can’t talk to humans is a pretty common trope, but that feat seems reasonably priced with its prerequisites.

The Acrobatic fencer is primarily a style thought. Most fictional swashbucklers seem to lean more heavily into agility than Strength and they’re the type who should be better at flashy maneuvers over regular damage. But, the explanation does make it seem more class feat territory. It’s something Swashbucklers, being flashy fighters do, rather than just any character.

Paul Watson wrote:

Acrobatic Fighter Feat 1

General, Skill
Prerequisites: Trained: Acrobatics
You can roll an Acrobatics check rather than Athletics to when using the Disarm, Shove or Trip actions.
Special: If a feat relates to the Disarm, Shove or Trip actions, you may use your proficiency in Acrobatics rather than Athletics to qualify.

This is a tough one to me because it feels somewhat natural to make these DEX-based actions, but Dexterity is also so much more useful than Strength. Athletic maneuvers are something that STR-based characters have going for them.

I'm wondering if the barrier to entry is too low? That is to say, level 1 is the perfect place to have these feats, but as skill feats they're... awkward. To begin you somewhat want to have these at level 1 and that won't be happening unless you're a skill monkey or you pick it up from a background. But after that, it's pretty free game for something that rolls some fairly important and powerful actions into a single powerful ability score. (Actually, the restraint in putting in only Disarm, Shove, and Trip, I think is very well-thought out.)

I can't help but wonder if these would work more as riders to class paths or class feats. Something like "As a gymnast swashbuckler, you may use Acrobatics in the place of Athletics for the Disarm, Shove, and Trip maneuvers." As skill feats they feel slightly restrictive while also being wildly accessible to the point of being "most martials should get this skill feat" - (and also, Acrobatics has some really decent skill feats already; hello Cat Fall and Kip Up.)

If it was a class feat, I'd roll Titan Fencer into it. Just using Acrobatics for some Athletics checks feels too little for class feat.

I'm not sure about all martials needing it. Most martials are going to have better Strength than Dexterity, so wouldn't get as much benefit.

Why does Nature Speaker grant a +1 bonus? It requiring Animal Empathy means it's going to be only selectable by druids, and those druids are already going to be seeing a big uptick in diplomatic effectiveness thanks to Nature keying off their Wisdom rather than Charisma.

Error caused by me forgetting I'd added the Animal Empathy requirement.

A couple of skill feats I'm using to better enable two common tropes: The flashy warrior who uses agility rather than brawn to move enemies around the battlefield and disarm them; and the gruff outdoorsman who can get along fine with animals but struggles to deal with humans.

Acrobatic Fighter Feat 1
General, Skill
Prerequisites: Trained: Acrobatics
You can roll an Acrobatics check rather than Athletics to when using the Disarm, Shove or Trip actions.
Special: If a feat relates to the Disarm, Shove or Trip actions, you may use your proficiency in Acrobatics rather than Athletics to qualify.

Nature Speaker Feat 1
General, Skill
Prerequisites: Trained: Nature, Animal Empathy
You can roll a Nature check instead of Diplomacy when attempting to Make an Impression or Request to animals. You receive a +1 status to Make an Impression on animals.

Titan Fencer Feat 2
General, Skill
Prerequisites: Acrobatic Fighter, Expert: Acrobatics
You can Disarm, Shove or Trip a creature up to two sizes larger than you, or up to three sizes larger than you if you are Legendary in Acrobatics.
Special: This feat counts as Titan Wrestler for purposes of qualifying for other feats, if those feats do not relate to Grapple

Any thoughts?

this is super cool to see, but i hope the "monsters" go a bit further than colourful skinned humanoid twinks and a guy that looks like Dabi from My hero Academia!

They include a romantic ooze and a dragon so at least some.

shroudb wrote:

I meant more in the sense of positioning your self in a good turn order to take full advantage of it, not in the sense of delaying AFTER you use the reaction to extend it.

In the same way that you may want to delay yourself after an enemy before Demoralizing him in order for the whole party to take advantage of that.

Ha ok, I misunderstood your point. But it's hard to do it then as you need the combat to be extremely stable (and if the GM is nasty, monsters can also Delay once they understand how your power works).

“Why are none of you doing anything??!”

“Gotta delay to fix the paladin, boss”

“But his allies aren’t delaying, are they? They’re carving you apart.”

“Might be a flaw in the plan, boss.”

Prince Maleus wrote:

I will be watching the streams

Good good! We'll be streaming live on Twitch! And, we'll have all the videos up after if you miss any!

Maya! For all the gods’ sake, don’t cross-promote the streams!!

My watch has begun

Michael Sayre wrote:

zergtitan wrote:

If we already got the previous pre-remaster version via subscription, will we be getting the remaster PDF update? or is this a completely different book?

If you already have the Guns & Gears PDF, you'll get the remaster version of the download automatically just like you would when we release a new printing with errata.

Is this policy still in effect? Or did it change?

I own the previous Guns and Gears pdf, but my account doesn't show the remastered one.

Thank you!!

It shows up as the originall e, updated on Dec 2024, if that helps

They did the Match? They did the Monster Match. Oh, yeahhhhhh.

Mr Jacibs demonstrates a masterful knowledge of players and player actions which is exemplified in one single sentence from this adventure: "However, such a fall is easy to avoid by simply not jumping into the machinery or off the edge!"

This is probably a silly question, but...juuuuuust to verify...is Gouging Claw a Cantrip?

Yes, I know it's called Cantrip 1. But...it doesn't have the Cantrip trait box. That's *probably* a mistake, but...I wonder if it was meant to maybe be a 1st rank spell rather than a Cantrip?

As near as I can tell, at least within Player Core 1, every other spell listed as a Cantrip has the Cantrip trait. Just Gouging Claw does not.

I didn't see a similar mention in this thread, so I thought I'd ask.

It is according to the Archives of Nethys which is the official Pathfindder 2E SRD-equivalent. This seems to support the theory that it is a misprint that it's missing the Cantrip trait.

And now my watch is over. Good fortune to those who remain.

It also serves to alert otherforumites that the shipping process is beginning, and to provide some proof that shipping is in process during the seemingly never-ending waits while it’ss not your order that’s shipping.

Can confirm the system has managed to send out the subscription is coming emails.
My watch begins.

Anyone willing to share the general effect (not verbatim mechanics) of Cenotaph Stance? Currently playing a level 15 Lastwall Sentry pre-Gravelands so I’m interested to see if any of these will become my next feat choice!

It’s a “you shall not pass” stance. You gain temporary hp every round. You can Shield Block for allies within 15ft. You gaina a bonus reaction to Shield Block. You can’t move while in the stance.

Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:

Will the Knights of Last Wall archetypes be updated to the remaster here?

Bump, bump

The Knight Reclaimant, Knight Vigilant and Lastwall Sentry each gain three new archetype feats. These are new feats rathe than updates of existing ones. All are high level (16+).

The feats are

The Halcyon Speaker and Magaambyan Attendant also get new feats. There are no new archetypes in the book.

My watch has begun.

I thought that Paizo was only doing the core books as remaster? I went and bought all the physical books about a year ago with that information and now I look at what new books are available and find things like this, Guns and Gears and Treasure Vault are remastered now too. What about things like Book of the Dead or Secrets of Magic or Dark Archive? All that money spent on now out of date books. I'm aware of AoN and errata, but I shouldn't have to go to others sources and flip though printed errata to find differences. I would've held off on buying all these books if they hadn't had made a statement saying the core books only were getting a remastered edition.

The books are remastred because they were due for a second printing and errata pass and it makes no sense not to remaster them at that point as you’ll be looking over the rules anyway. The changes are more in line with an errata pass than a complete rewrite, so it’s no different to any other errated book.

Was this book supposed to be in the rulebook sub? I thought it had initially said it would be and have been looking forward to it but now it looks like it isn’t and the next one is the npc core.

It was announced upthread that this, and presumably other Remastered updates, are not part of the Rules subscription. If you have the product already, it’s pdf will be updated. If you subscribed later, or want a new physial copy, you need to buy normally.

My watch, too, has begun.

As for the word "spread" that's not a typo nor a new slang term. It's a standard word for "a form of food that's smeared on or over a surface," like peanut butter or jam or the like. The idea being that the elves are accepting a non-elven method of reducing foods to things like jam or jelly or pate or the like.

As a British person, I felt my food culture personally attacked by this section. :-)

And my watch has ended

You can destroy a Thrall for a focus point.

Am I crazy, or is there not a link to a PDF document with the classes in it like previous playtests?

I cannot answer if you’re crazy (although as you’re here, signs point to yes), but I can’t see the link, either.

The link to Demiplane also doesn’t work.

KingTreyIII wrote:

WHERE'S DESKARI?!

Spoiler reason?

[Poe Dammaran]Somehow…Deskari returned.

My watch, too, has ended. Inconceivable!

As I finally updated the spreadsheet of deities, some facts on the Domains provided:

Most popular Domains: Protection (77)
Knowledge (76)
Might (73)
Nature (67)
Trickery (63)

Least Popular: Dust (7)
Introspection(7)
Wood (6)
Abomination (4)
Naga: (2)

More popular as an Alternate Doman:
Toil (12 v 20)
Metal (10 v 12)
Dust (7 v 8)
Introspection (7 v 17)
Abomination (4 v 5)

The two that really stand out there are Toil and Introspection. Much more popular to give to gods as secondary activities
Soul (12 v12) and Naga (2 v 2) are equally popular as Domains and Alternate Domains

Dammerich has Truth as both a Domain and an Alternate domain. Presuming the alternate domain should be None?

Paul Watson wrote:

In the summary table, Neshen has identifal edicts and anathema which might be tricky to follow.

What should the Knight of the Steel Lashes’ anahema be?

Luis Loza posted here about a week ago with a clarification on that.

Luis Loza wrote:

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

Noticed an error on Page 308 in the Appendix: In the line for Neshen (Knight of the Steel Lash), near the bottom, his edicts and anathema are identical, which I think isn't intentional. I can't imagine a god who exhorts you to "lead others to the light of good," while also forbidding it.

Thanks for catching this! The proper anathema should read "stop taking care of yourself, wallow in self-pity, refuse to right past wrongs."

Thanks. I searched for Neshen and got no findings.

In the summary table, Neshen has identifal edicts and anathema which might be tricky to follow.
What should the Knight of the Steel Lashes’ anahema be?

I got mine yesterday (international shipping) and the new watch has begun.

After the last two months, my wallet gives thanks for that

New Gods with a full page treatment
Ah Pook, the Destroyer
Aleth, the Gentle Shroud
Atrogine, Thought Made Flesh
Camazotz, Lord of Stolen Blood
The Devourer, the Star-Eater
Embaral, the Flooded Heart
Emmeton Galardaria, the Shared Hope
Genzaeri, the Telling Trial
Izuyakuthe Strength and Serenity
Kaldemash, Keeper of the Code
Nin, the Immaculate Solution
Obari, the Wandering Storm
Razmir, the Living God (Not technically new but first full deity representation)
Treerazer, Lord of the Blasted Tarn (Not technically new but first full deity representation)
Vudravarti, the Peaceful Mother
Zjar-Tovan, the Bladesoul

Quite a few are Arcadin or Vudran which might be hints of where the setting books are heading

My watch has ended. Good luck to those remaining.

What’s wrong with waking up next to total strangers with missing time and bright blue tattoos, i ask you?

And as my last watch ends. my new one begins

Stands lonely on the walls, waiting for my watch to end.

And now my watch has ended

Stands lonely on the walls, waiting for my watch to end.

And just got a notification...for the Pathfinder Society Scenarios. Harrumph!
My watch continues.

Light the fires, my my fellow sentries. It’s going to be a long weekend of chanting.

Likewise. Keep up the chanting.

Looking at the time, looks like I really got unlucky this time. On the bright side, it’s 50/50 at this point between the order shipping tomorrow and Friday, right?

Probably 40/40/20 with 20 being slipping past the expected cutoff.

Taking another secondary caster slot.

Looking forward to more fighting and fewer dinner parties...

I am somewhat surprised that orc dinner parties don’t also include a significant amount of fighting.

Ken'Thras Sunspell wrote:

Also, there is no "When physical subscribers get the PDFs". Some people have had the War of Immortals one for days, if not over a week now, and I have not received mine yet. It's dependent on when yours get shipped, which as far as I can tell is the street date of the book -2d12 days, per person. Looks like I rolled low this time.

This is another thing that I personally really dislike and I don't believe it should be a thing -- I don't like the way the subscriptions are handled. Everyone should be charged at once in one specific day, and receive their PDF as part of that. Then, their orders will ship as they are able from the warehouse. I personally am not a fan at all of the "Am I seeing all the people online enjoy the product and discuss it while waiting who knows how long, or am I getting the product early?" game -- Hypothetically, if subscription early access worked this way, then people with a PDF subscription could get it at this moment too

It’s been said repeatedly that if they do that, the physical shipment will slip out of their payment provider’s window for shipping which will cause a different set of problems.

Aenigma wrote:

So daemons have their own unique mythic destiny, while other evil outsiders (not sure if Pathfinder still uses this term or not though) share archfiend? I have always suspected that Paizo favors daemons over other evil outsiders, or perhaps over all the other outsiders (perhaps because daemons are entirely Paizo's creation?), and now it is proven!

I don't see how that holds water. For one thing, can you point to a single AP where daemons were the primary antagonists? Because I can point to at least one, Wrath of the Righteous, where demons were the primary foes, and thanks to their ties with Cheliax, devils form significant opposition in multiple APs, with the party going to Hell in at least one, Hell's Rebels.

Daemons have received relatively little spotlight in comparison; it's just their turn now, is all.
It's also entirely possible that the separate destiny was made because there is enough of a thematic difference between general, fiendish powers, and fiendish powers that center on a special mount, that shoving them into the same destiny would have made the single fiendish destiny overly large compared to the others.

Invictus Fatum wrote:

You're realm is fully created and within Hell, the Outer Rifts, The Netherlands, or some other demiplane with fiendish tendencies you wish with you ruling it.

Where the windmills slowly grind the souls of the wicked into fertilizer for the tulips of despair. :P

A fiend lived in a windmill in old Amsterdam

My watch begins

Oh I am so excited.

And as far as Mythic Destinies revealed:
Archfiend
Apocalypse Rider
Ascended Celestial
Eternal Legend
Prophesied Monarch
Gosling

That's 6 out of 9 in War of Immortals and there is the Mortal Herald in Divine Mysteries next month.

I knew geese were badass, but a whole Mythic Destiny?